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Program Description

In order to increase the opportunities for undergraduates to participate with faculty mentors in professional activities outside the classroom, the College of Arts & Sciences established a Research and Creative Activities Award program in the winter of 1997. This program recognizes academic excellence and potential for research and creative activities and provides undergraduate students with opportunities for hands-on research or creative activities experience with faculty from the College.

The joint student/faculty projects represent the diversity of scholarly activity in the College. Projects have ranged from English Editorial Assistants to molecular biology research.

Up to 60 awards of up to $500 can be used by the students as a stipend or to defray the cost of the project. Work associated with the award may be conducted during the Fall or Spring semesters or during the Summer I/Summer II sessions. Award recipients will be asked to present their findings at a yearly Arts and Sciences Research and Creative Activities Day symposium.

In addition to the College funding of these projects, projects can be sponsored by regional industry, government and hospitals. Each March or April the Dean hosts a reception for the recipients. The highlight of the reception is the display of the student's work in posters.